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Our government also, I admit with some reason, as a step towards the proposed fraternity, is required to abjure the unjust hatred which it bears to this body, of honour and virtue.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the government must overcome its unjust animosity towards honorable groups for the sake of fraternity.
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